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Polymer desorption under pulling: first order phase transition without phase coexistence
A. Milchev, V. G. Rostiashvili, S. Bhattacharya +1
We show that when a self-avoiding polymer chain is pulled off a sticky surface by force applied to the end segment, it undergoes a first-order thermodynamic phase transition albeit…
Polymer Chain Adsorption on a Solid Surface: Scaling Arguments and Computer Simulations
A. Milchev, V. Rostiashvili, S. Bhattacharya +1
We examine the phase transition of polymer adsorption as well as the underlying kinetics of polymer binding from dilute solutions on a structureless solid surface. The emphasis is…
Pulling an adsorbed polymer chain off a solid surface
S. Bhattacharya, A. Milchev, V. G. Rostiashvili +1
The thermally assisted detachment of a self-avoiding polymer chain from an adhesive surface by an external force applied to one of the chain ends is investigated. We perform our st…
Polymer desorption under pulling: a novel dichotomic phase transition
S. Bhattacharya, V. G. Rostiashvili, A. Milchev +1
We show that the structural properties and phase behavior of a self-avoiding polymer chain on adhesive substrate, subject to pulling at the chain end, can be obtained by means of a…